Assorted thoughts and whines
Jul. 26th, 2003 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ealgyldenThere's a trailer up at the not-yet-homepage for Master and Commander: The Thirteen-Gun Nutmeg of the Ionian Surgeon's Mate (hey, they started it), but I have no way of knowing if it's new or if it's the one ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
castalianspring pointed out a couple weeks ago and people are just now talking about it (I think it probably is), since, naturally, I can't watch it. I clicked it and Gozer began its "I'll crash! Don't think I won't!" shtick, so that was the end of that. I still think Russell is too glowery to be Jack, but they didn't ask me (alas). I mean, Jack's something of the anti-Hornblower, personality-wise. It would have been nice if they'd cast a guy who hadn't forgotten how to smile.
Also, I was looking at these early production pics from the Keira Knightley/Ioan Gruffudd/Clive Owen King Arthur flick (vaguely spoilery, midway down the page), and Who are the blue guys? The ones down in the last two pics, with Ioan (who looks rather scruffy. Interesting). This is obviously going to be a "historical" Arthur story rather than a "chivalric myth" one (hence the Roman fella), so are these your standard movie!Picts? Filmmakers just cannot resist having blue people in every vaguely Celtic movie.
Nice to see Ray Winstone, looking as much like a thug as ever. Which works, I guess- I know if I saw him coming at me with a sword, I'd run like heck. I'm also glad to see Stellan Skarsgaard and Sean Gilder in the cast- it's an odd mix, really, but it's mostly actors I like so I'm not complaining. No pictures of Keira as Xenavere, I notice. Too bad, I really want to see what they're going to do with her, aside from making her fierce. I also want to tell Ioan to stand up straight and look at the camera, the better to be ogled, but it's probably really tiring to run around in armor and mail all day (even leather armor).
Antoine Fuqua seems like a really strange choice for a director. Somehow, that makes me nervous. He's "modern action movie with lots of guns" guy. He used to direct music videos. He's certainly not someone I would immediately think of as an epic filmmaker. So this should be... interesting.
And where, oh where, is my PotC CD? I wonder if the mailman has run off with it, like he always does with the good issues of Entertainment Weekly (if it's a preview issue or something similar, I mysteriously get it several days late. After he's read it, is my guess). And now I have to wait until Monday. whine Oh well, I guess I'll just have to go see it one more time tomorrow instead. Cunning plan, eh?
castalianspring pointed out a couple weeks ago and people are just now talking about it (I think it probably is), since, naturally, I can't watch it. I clicked it and Gozer began its "I'll crash! Don't think I won't!" shtick, so that was the end of that. I still think Russell is too glowery to be Jack, but they didn't ask me (alas). I mean, Jack's something of the anti-Hornblower, personality-wise. It would have been nice if they'd cast a guy who hadn't forgotten how to smile. Also, I was looking at these early production pics from the Keira Knightley/Ioan Gruffudd/Clive Owen King Arthur flick (vaguely spoilery, midway down the page), and Who are the blue guys? The ones down in the last two pics, with Ioan (who looks rather scruffy. Interesting). This is obviously going to be a "historical" Arthur story rather than a "chivalric myth" one (hence the Roman fella), so are these your standard movie!Picts? Filmmakers just cannot resist having blue people in every vaguely Celtic movie.
Nice to see Ray Winstone, looking as much like a thug as ever. Which works, I guess- I know if I saw him coming at me with a sword, I'd run like heck. I'm also glad to see Stellan Skarsgaard and Sean Gilder in the cast- it's an odd mix, really, but it's mostly actors I like so I'm not complaining. No pictures of Keira as Xenavere, I notice. Too bad, I really want to see what they're going to do with her, aside from making her fierce. I also want to tell Ioan to stand up straight and look at the camera, the better to be ogled, but it's probably really tiring to run around in armor and mail all day (even leather armor).
Antoine Fuqua seems like a really strange choice for a director. Somehow, that makes me nervous. He's "modern action movie with lots of guns" guy. He used to direct music videos. He's certainly not someone I would immediately think of as an epic filmmaker. So this should be... interesting.
And where, oh where, is my PotC CD? I wonder if the mailman has run off with it, like he always does with the good issues of Entertainment Weekly (if it's a preview issue or something similar, I mysteriously get it several days late. After he's read it, is my guess). And now I have to wait until Monday. whine Oh well, I guess I'll just have to go see it one more time tomorrow instead. Cunning plan, eh?
